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The Bayonet Street apartment building will have a total of 64 units, with the majority reserved for residents in need of housing assistance, with a batch reserved for adults with intellectual disabilities.
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A local nonprofit preschool and local lawmakers are pushing to expand options for at-home day cares and ways to tackle both the affordability crises in both housing and child care.
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Connecticut’s aging housing leaves children particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning, which can lead to damage to the brain, kidneys and nervous system. Nearly 1,000 public housing apartments in Hartford and Norwich will be remediated.
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The city of Northampton, Massachusetts, issued a "no trespass" order Monday morning for a group of people living in a tent encampment near Lake Fitzgerald.
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The survey — focused on farms not covered by a grassroots farmworker labor and housing rights program — shows a vast majority of Spanish-speaking immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont make below minimum wage, work six to seven days a week and are hurt on the job.
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The McKinney shelter, run by nonprofit Community Renewal Team, is the first shelter for men in Connecticut to open in a converted hotel. It has 80 beds for homeless men.
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New data from the Census Bureau shows renters in the state tend to be younger and live in older housing.
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Nursing homes across the state are struggling with increased costs and an acute labor shortage.
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The state's housing crisis is not just affecting people seeking housing. Many housing case workers are feeling burned out and struggle to find ways to decompress.
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Make the Road is calling for state and federal changes to housing policy, including the creation of a state agency to oversee the acquisition of land to form affordable housing and federally prohibiting hedge funds from owning single family rentals.